Cot or pliable bedstead.



PATENTED NOV. 29, 1904.

I. HI-RSGH. GOT 0R PLIABLE BEDSTEAD. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 18, 1903- NO MODEL.

NHE rAs Patented November 29, 1904.

IGNA"Z HIRSGH, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, ASSIGNOR TO EDUARD W I TE, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

COT OR PLIABLE BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,244, dated November 29, 1904.

A li ti fil d November 18, 1903. $eria1No. 181,664. (No model.)

To (LZZ 1072 0772 it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IGNA'IZ Hmson, a citizen of the Empire of Austria-Hungary, residing at Mohrengasse 20, Vienna, Austria-Hun- 5 gary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in (lots or Pliable Bedsteads; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the To art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to improvements in cots or folding bedsteads, and has for its object to provide an improved con- 5 .struction of cots having means for changing the inclined position of the head-rest at the head end of the cot.

A cot embodying my invention is represented in the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which is shown a perspective view of the cot.

The covering is formed in the ordinary manner bya piece of canvas a extending over the entire length of the cot, being secured to rods 6 7) 0,with its longitudinal edges running parallel to each other and a distance apart equal to the distance between the trestlesf. The rods can easily be detached from the trestles, so that the covering a may be folded or rolled up into a small parcel. To this end the trestles are provided with'hooks m, and the rods are provided with corresponding ears 0, adapted to be thrown over said hooks. The rods 6 b are united at their adjacent ends by double hooks secured to the ends of the center trestle, one portion of each hook engaging an ear integral with each of said rods, as shown, and thus the said rods 5 .7) are prevented from collapsing, as will be readily understood. The rods 0 c, forming on e-third of the whole length and forming the head-rest, are hinged at 7) to the rods L b, and to their free ends sectors or curved bars (Z are pivotally connected, as at 1 said bars passing through slots in anglebars 76, secured to the yoke or trestle at the head end of the cot. The bars (Z are also provided with a number of holes 9', through which a pin 2' may be passed to secure the head-rest at any desired inclination.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a cot, trestles. rods in sections detachably supported on said trestles and supporting the covering, double hooks on the center trestie and ears on the said rods near their adjacent ends each engaged by one of the portions of the double hooks, the rods at the head end being hinged to said rods, curved bars pivoted to the free ends of the head-end rods, guides on the trestles for said bars, and means cooperating with said bars for holding the head-end portion at the desired inclination.

2. Acot composed of a plurality of trestles, a covering having its side edges attached to rods, said rods being in sections, said rods being formed at their adjacent ends with integral ears, and double hooks on the ends of the center trestle having one portion engaged in an ear of each of said rods and detachably holding the same to the trestles and holding the covering in a stretched condition, the head-end section being hinged to the rods of the main section, curved bars pivotally connected with the rods of the head-end section and having a series of openings, anglebars on the head-end trestle and removable pins supported on the horizontal portions of said angle-bars and engaged in said openings.

3. A cot comprising parallel rods formed with integral ears upon their outer faces, each rod being jointed, a flexible covering secu red to said rods, a head -section jointed to the ends of said rods and having the said covering secured thereto, trestles, means for adjustment of the head-section, and hooks secured to the ends of the trestles and engaging the ears on said rods, the hooks opposite the joints in the rods being double to engage upon opposite sides of the joints.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

IGNATZ HIRSCH.

In presence of FRIEDRICH BINDER, ALVES'IO S. .HOGUE. 

